Pennsylvania defends the belt, 47–6, at home over Franklin & Marshall.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 368 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. It was the last defense: Swarthmore took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 13, 1906.
For Franklin & Marshall this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 4–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against Franklin & Marshall on October 10, 1906, winning 47-6 to retain the title in week 4 of the regular season.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 5210) · This game in the downloadable dataset